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== Strategy #1: Student Consulting Projects == <span id="docs-internal-guid-457b20c4-30ff-52f2-6e77-69159694e0f3"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In today’s America, millennials that graduate are most concerned with getting jobs, and this program aims to help with that simply by improving industry-university connections. Our University President, Dr. Michael Crow, asserts in his book, Designing the New American University, that university innovation parallels that of industry innovation where there is mutual collaboration in what he calls the ‘triple helix of university-industry-government innovation’. Student Consulting Projects is a university wide organization that connects local industry with the university through engineering projects that students consult companies with. I interviewed students that were part of a similar organization at school called Engineering Projects in Community Partners to get their perspective. Although the students found similarities between both organizations, they said that working with community partners was often difficult and they did not personally learn from them. Realizing this, I would emphasize the connections students make with industry professionals as they offer the greatest gain to students. To incentivise this on the industry professional’s side, we could offer tax breaks to their business as a means to collaborate with the university effectively. The information I received was valuable in that I could get a feel for the type of students interested in a program like this.</span></span><div><br/></div>
== Strategy #2==